or any other national political figure. i don't want to glide over that one point that makes progressives not like ron paul. they love income redistribution and ron paul does not. in fact i think ron paul was a living sort of rebuke to them in a sense that it sort of proved they only care about income redistribution and don't care about peace, civil liberties and saving people from power. and the lies in the progressives, not ron paul. the fourth divide that ron paul bridges that contributes to success is he is both an incredibly intellectual politician with an incredibly emotional hold on his audience that i discovered as i met hundreds of them in researching this book. he is, as i heard people say, the only politician running for national office of whom you hear people say i heard ron paul and i went out and read a bunch of books. you're not going to hear that about obama or romney, and ron paul, not only does he write books -- his books have bib lee agoographys that point you in the direction where his ideas came from. h